NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 63

HOUSE BILL 180

AN ACT AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WINSTON-SALEM.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Section 110 of Chapter 232 of the Private Laws of 1927, as amended, is hereby amended by adding, at the end thereof, two new paragraphs, as follows:

"In any instance in which the City accumulates or produces a quantity of any particular article or commodity which, in the opinion of the Board of Aldermen, is surplus to the needs of the City and should be sold, the Board of Aldermen may, by ordinance, establish standard units and unit prices at which such articles or commodities shall be sold and authorize the sale thereof by the City to the public, without advertisement or bidding.

"The Board of Aldermen may rent or lease from others such property, real or personal, as may from time to time be needed for any lawful public purpose upon such terms and conditions as the Board deems to be in the best interest of the City, without public advertisement or bidding. Property owned by the City may be leased or rented for any public purpose or for a purpose that is incidental to a public purpose for which the property is held, upon such terms and conditions as the Board of Aldermen deems to be in the best interest of the City, without public advertisement or bidding."

Sec. 2. The authority contained herein shall be in addition to any authority which the Board of Aldermen of the City of Winston-Salem may have under any other law, public, or private.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of March, 1969.